jon_chaisson | Stuck in a rut

I've been annoyed with myself over the last few months, because I just can't seem to write anything creative for my Daily Words. Somehow I started using the 750Words platforms as a personal journal and that was fine for what I wanted to get off my chest but...I've been typing out the same damn things over and over AND OVER AGAIN. I get obsessed over something and that's all I rant about. Repeatedly. It's no longer an outlet but a crutch, and that is the last thing I need or want right now.

I don't want to stop the writing, because that's not what's needed. It's that I need to force my brain back into using its creative side again. Open up the platform and just...write something creative, whatever it is. Come up with an idea, any idea, and run with it. Stop waiting for inspiration to strike, because that's not going to work and I'll be wasting time. A passing thought, an attempt at a rewrite of an old story, a riff on a bizarre dream I may have had, whatever it takes.

I know it's not because I'm at the post-revision/pre-submission level for Diwa & Kaffi. It's simply because I let myself fall into this feedback loop. And I need to break out of it.